QGIS Raster Calculater Syntax@underdark - yes I'm pretty sure I'm using the right one. I can only see one raster calculator in QGIS 1.8 and the picture of the GUI in the documentation is the same. Most of the commands work just not the conditional statements.

How to use QGIS Zonal Stats Plugin from Python Console?thanks for the suggestion but I've already tried saga - the results it produced were inconsistent i.e. doing the same thing twice gave different results. I know the ZonalStats plugin in QGIS works, hence I'm after a way to automate ZonalStats.